Hiding my ball python in a dorm?

[Annarose15]

Though I'm not going to for a few years, I've just been thinking about what I'm going to do with my animals if I decide to live in a dorm.

As an animal lover, I know I CAN'T live without my pets. And I know I probably won't be able to hide my dog, cat, ferrets, or rats. I could most likely leave those with my parents.
So that pretty much leaves me with my fish and my ball python. My mother definitely wont want to watch over my python. He's my baby. And they live for like 30 years, i'm really excited to have a pet that will be with me for such a large chunk of my life. I refuse to give him a new home or live in a lonely dorm with no pets.

So I was just wondering, how hard would it be to hide him? what could I do to hide him?
Just planning ahead, haha (:

Ok, so pretty much everyone on this site is an animal lover. That being said, anyone CAN live without a pet for a year. It isn't like you won't go home on holidays, or possibly even weekends, depending on the distance. "Lonely" dorm? Have you been in a dorm? The entire premise is 20-60 people per floor that you are around day in and day out. If you want to plan ahead, go to school close to home where you can drive/bus back on weekends to take care of your own animals. Or, discuss care with your mom ahead of time and determine what she is and isn't willing to do. My mom was never a fan of snakes, but she cared for my boa and my brother's burm until we could get apartments and take care of them ourselves. It isn't like a BP is a high-maintenance animal. Or, choose a school that doesn't require students to live on campus freshman year (although it will probably be a more expensive living arrangement), and take all of YOUR animals with you, even though I personally feel that a lot of the college experience is lost if you don't spend any time in a dorm, simply because of all the people you would not otherwise meet your first year.